As Louis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty says to Alice in Wonderland, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less." The "cover open ...

With 3D printers dropping below the US$200 mark, the home 3D printing revolution appears to be getting into full swing, which is great ... if you want to make things out of plastic. Unfortunately, the ...

If you follow the desktop 3D printer market, it probably won’t surprise you to hear that nearly every 3D printer on display at the inaugural East Coast RepRap Festival (ERRF) was made in China. Even ...

Until now, 3D printing has been a polymer affair, with most people in the maker community using the machines to make all manner of plastic consumer goods, from tent stakes to chess sets. A new ...

If you’re looking for a more open, unenclosed 3D printer design than a cubic frame can accommodate, but don’t want to use a bed-slinger, you don’t have many options. [Boothy Builds] recently found ...

A new type of open source 3D printer called the Mamba3D has been unveiled this week, and its creators, MyMatics, are shortly set to launch a new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to help construct the ...